Laughing at stupid foreigners.

[Cubist]

Writing "Slough-it" doesn't help. Are you pronouncing it slough, as in a snake shedding its skin, or Slough, as in the crap town in Berkshire?

Slawit. It says so on the Taxi. I nearly wrote Taxis, but I think there's only one.

 

[Cubist]

Everyone get's that in Slaithwaite. Especially those *******s from Marsden* - bloody foreigners.

* Marsden is about 2 miles up the valley - but may as well be on the moon (or even in Lancashire).

Why wasn't Jesus born in Marsden?






They couldn't find three wise men, or a virgin.

 

[subaqua]

Wonder if SNP-led local authorities will bring in the restrictive employment practice that you have to learn Gaelic to get a job in Scottish local authorities in the same way that Plaid Cymru forces people to learn Welsh to get work from their County Councils... not bitter, not bitter at all.

it is/was worse than that.

we looked at going back to N Wales. I was born just over the border in Chester so am English by birth ( Hack spit). if I wanted to work in Local Authority I don't need to learn Welsh ( I can speak welsh but not as fluent as I was as I don't use it enough in Laahndaaahn )
My wife was born in N Wales just over the border, but as she is Welsh born she has to be able to speak Welsh to work in LEA. Bonkers.
I don't think it was Plaid Cymru either, i think hte welsh language society bombarded multiple parties and they got a sympathetic ear. for some things it was good , but for others utter rubbish. I know one welsh company who had to have a set of engineering drawings issued in Welsh as well as English. I think they got opened once and then rapidly put away.

as for pronunciation

Cholmondeley in Cheshire is pronounced Chumley.
wybunbury is winberry but bunbury is Bun -berry.

madness !

 

[Cubist]

it is/was worse than that.

we looked at going back to N Wales. I was born just over the border in Chester so am English by birth ( Hack spit). if I wanted to work in Local Authority I don't need to learn Welsh ( I can speak welsh but not as fluent as I was as I don't use it enough in Laahndaaahn )
My wife was born in N Wales just over the border, but as she is Welsh born she has to be able to speak Welsh to work in LEA. Bonkers.
I don't think it was Plaid Cymru either, i think hte welsh language society bombarded multiple parties and they got a sympathetic ear. for some things it was good , but for others utter rubbish. I know one welsh company who had to have a set of engineering drawings issued in Welsh as well as English. I think they got opened once and then rapidly put away.

as for pronunciation

Cholmondeley in Cheshire is pronounced Chumley.
wybunbury is winberry but bunbury is Bun -berry.

madness !

They only do it to annoy folk. My English teacher at school was Welsh. He used to insist on writing cheques in Welsh. Apart from all the entertaining letters from the bank (some of which he shared with us) he also admitted that the money stayed in his account longer, a tactic especially useful nearer payday.

 

[subaqua]

They only do it to annoy folk. My English teacher at school was Welsh. He used to insist on writing cheques in Welsh. Apart from all the entertaining letters from the bank (some of which he shared with us) he also admitted that the money stayed in his account longer, a tactic especially useful nearer payday.

I am still with my hometown branch and as such I have a dual language chequebook. I have been known to write them in Welsh but it is at least 10 years since the last one

 

[nickyboy]

The Transpennine Ale Trail.
TBH I'd stay clear.... Apparently it's been overrun with stag & hen do's and pi$$ed up corporate days-out......oh......

An alternative for those so musically inclined:

http://www.hvhptp.org.uk/folktran.htm

 

[swee'pea99]

They only do it to annoy folk. My English teacher at school was Welsh. He used to insist on writing cheques in Welsh. Apart from all the entertaining letters from the bank (some of which he shared with us) he also admitted that the money stayed in his account longer, a tactic especially useful nearer payday.

Can't remember who it was told it, but the story went like this...

Small group of public schoolboys doing a walking tour in Deliverance country, Wales-shire, turn up in a village shop, whereupon the form master, just for the hell of it, assembles a shopping list from the boys' requests, in Latin. This, needless to say, impresses the locals no end. They proceed to express their approval by freely (and of course Welshly) exchanging some fairly fruity views on English ****s. Having completed his list, the form master then turns to the shopkeeper to deliver it with an engaging smile, and in impeccable Welsh.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Peoria..presently the home of a very silly man...HERE

Oops..I'll get my door kicked in and extradited for that...

He is also a very thinned skinned man, a rare malady among politicians in Peoria. Previous mayor probably would have said "What's a twitter? A gathering place for Twits?" and been done with it.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/18/peoria-mayor-calls-out-police-to-track-d
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140417/NEWS/140419023
Still, not quite as interesting as Toronto:
http://reason.com/24-7/2014/05/01/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-reportedly-caught
NSFW!
That being said, two towns I absolutely love. Just ignore the politicians.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

He is also a very thinned skinned man, a rare malady among politicians in Peoria. Previous mayor probably would have said "What's a twitter? A gathering place for Twits?" and been done with it.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/18/peoria-mayor-calls-out-police-to-track-d
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140417/NEWS/140419023
Still, not quite as interesting as Toronto:
http://reason.com/24-7/2014/05/01/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-reportedly-caught
NSFW!
That being said, two towns I absolutely love. Just ignore the politicians.

Thanks..
I've been following the Rob Ford thing...he's certainly more fun than your average politician but Jim Ardis.......says a lot when the Police Chief left to work with Caterpillar, so its one digging a deeper hole whilst one is getting out of one. Our politicains are pretty staid compared to these two...
This site is one of my daily visits.. HERE

 

[Gravity Aided]

Caterpillar is a nice place to work.
Peoria Police Department, maybe not so much.
I was just over the other day,
wonderful things they have done with the waterfront and harbor.

 

[Dayvo]

I was in Ireland with my Finnish mate in 1985. I was inside a shop buying a map and came out to witness this conversation between my friend a stranger.

Stranger: Say, where do y'all come frum?
Friend: Have a guess.
Stranger: Hell, I dunno, Wales?
Friend: No.
Stranger: Hell, I dunno. Ah give up.
Friend: Finland.
Stranger: We'll ahl be damned. Ahve never met ANYONE from Finland before. Where's Finland? It's part of Russia, ain't it?
Friend: Close.

Friend: Well, I know where you're from.
Stranger: How the hell can you know where I'm frum.

Yep, he was from the deep south of USA. (sorry about the poor phonetics) and looked and dressed like this character from a James Bond film.

 

[Ganymede]

Peoria is used as a catch-all stand-in for "the provinces" in American touring theatre. "It's a great show.... but will it play in Peoria?" - ie if it's too raunchy, urbane, intellectual etc it will flop on tour. Possibly a terrible slur on the people of Peoria, but a friend of mine's sister is married to a native Peorian and says it's fair!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Think I can beat that.
In the USA, daughter of a couple was fascinated that we were English, asked us if people in England live in houses.

That reminds me (vaguely) of when we had a couple of American kids (twins AFAIK. A boy and a girl) in our year at School, and the girl, on hearing another girl with a bad cold, asked in all seriousness

'Do Girls' voices break over here??'.



Seemingly they don't get much of that over in Florida...

 

[Gravity Aided]

Peoria is used as a catch-all stand-in for "the provinces" in American touring theatre. "It's a great show.... but will it play in Peoria?" - ie if it's too raunchy, urbane, intellectual etc it will flop on tour. Possibly a terrible slur on the people of Peoria, but a friend of mine's sister is married to a native Peorian and says it's fair!

Very much a product of Vaudeville. Due to central location between Chicago and St. Louis, as well as the large number of theaters, Peoria was a testing ground for acts, due to its audiences' tendency to mirror theatrical tastes encountered elsewhere in the US. Still a hotspot for product polling, though not as much as before. I think they do a lot of polling in Boise, Idaho now. The old Madison Theater is still working, although vaudeville is long gone. The Madison was built as a theater for stage productions, and still had it dressing rooms and such intact when restoration interest began in the 1970's Other theaters did not, although the Palace had a cafeteria in the basement of the theater, IIRC. I do not recall vaudeville in Peoria, my father did, and believed it was still playing through the 1930's.

 

[Gravity Aided]

[QUOTE 3141055, member: 259"]Nice poem - who's it by? [/QUOTE]
Me, earlier today.